AFTER breakfast we get busy with merch for the upcoming shows. The guitar pendants need leather necklaces added and there’s a lot of stuff needing boxed up. T-shirts and hoodies need to be bagged too.

There’s a couple of ‘prototype’ music-related pendants I’ve made for West Highland Way Gifts – they’re quite cool and Margaret suggests we take ’em with us for the merch table.

I get a message from the chemist saying my prescription is ready. I need some fresh air – getting cabin fever here – so I get Margaret to drive me there and I walk back.

In the studio I run through some of the material for this week’s live shows then I start sorting gear and re-stringing the guitars. I only get one guitar done before we have top nip along to help Betty with some stuff…a screw and cog on the back of one of the tuners comes adrift on the last string of the first guitar. I find the cog on the floor but it takes me half an hour to find the tiny wee screw. It’s a right ass pain…but just as well it happened now – if this happened during a show or ion a carpeted hotel room I’d be fucked!

It’s nearly ten o’clock when we get back from Betty’s and Margaret starts the dinner…too late to go back to the studio so we eat, chill a little while and have a relatively early night.